Perspective on Diamond-Blackfan anemia: lessons from a rare congenital bone marrow failure syndrome.
Perspective on Diamond-Blackfan anemia: lessons from a rare congenital bone marrow failure syndrome.
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戴蒙德-布莱克范贫血的观点:罕见先天性骨髓衰竭综合征的教训。
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Sakamoto,KM;Narla,A
Congenital and inherited bone marrow failure syndromes are rare and not exactly public health hazards. However, they have important lessons to teach about hematology in particular and cell biology in general. First, significant advances in scientific knowledge and understanding of pathogenesis can be obtained from studying rare diseases in children. Second, studies on rare syndromes provide insights into the normal physiology at both the cellular and global levels. Finally, as in the case of del (5q) myelodysplastic syndrome (where RPS14 was found to be mutated), discoveries from studying rare diseases such as Diamond–Blackfan anemia (DBA) can have important implications for our understanding of other congenital, inherited and acquired diseases in children and adults. In this perspective we briefly review progress and milestones in DBA research over the past two decades. 1DBA was first described in 1936 by Hugh Josephs but was ultimately named after Louis Diamond and Kenneth Blackfan who described the hypoplastic anemia syndrome in 1938. 2 Initially, DBA was thought to be an immune-mediated disease that led to corticosteroid therapy that has become the standard of care. However, after 50 years, it is still unclear how precisely corticosteroids improve erythropoiesis in children with DBA. An elevated eADA has been noted since the 1980s in the majority (> 75%) of patients with DBA. 3–5 Why adenosine deaminase should be elevated and what role it might have in DBA again remains uncertain. In 1997, a mutation was noted on chromosome 19 in a child with DBA, 6, 7 and in 1999 was determined to be within the